I’ve been overall happy with Plex, I have a few major gripes as most long term Plex users normally do at this point. Hope they didn’t announce this way to soon. If a bunch of people bought into Amazon for plex cloud thinking like I did hey they announced this and I could use a month or two to upload before worrying about getting invited and testing. I expect a lot of upset over the cost for amazon drive being even higher than plex’s costs and not having access.
@quakemarine20 said:
At this point with the time and effort invested into uploading to Amazon, the long delays waiting for an invite. If there was a serious delay say 6 months like your suggesting it could cause some fairly severe blow-back. Plex cloud is the main thing currently holding me back from Emby. This year I really had to question my renewal with comic books support being in Emby, and GPU decoding. It was a very tough call. When you look at everyone who has already paid Amazon and is uploading now, and have decided that going from 40 a year for plex to 100 for amazon to be included. That seems like lots of money spent for Plex to drag this out for to long.Also with the this is a new product talk going around, if in a month they say open invite but you have to pay a new subscription fee to the cloud servers, and pay the cloud servers fee to amazon as well. Well as this point 40 for a year of plex, 60 for a year of amazon and any additional costs would just make it to much money. Unless they offer to convert plexpass into cloud plex pass initially.
The only real feature I pay for with plex pass is remote support, other than that trailers are ok, premium music has been a hassle. So cloud expands upon remote access and is really the only thing I am now interested in.
You forget that paying 40$/year for Plex (buy a lifetime pass) and 60$ for amazon saves you the cost of building and maintaining a Plex server in your home. I spend more then that on average just on hard drives, nevermind electricity costs and convenience… Plus it’s an unlimited backup option… That’s very cheap if you ask me.
Some guys here spend a few grands on their NAS setups, plus backup solutions, plus the electric bill…
And we haven’t touched on the upload speed limitation to sharing your friends and family from your home server!
@quakemarine20 said:
I’ve been overall happy with Plex, I have a few major gripes as most long term Plex users normally do at this point. Hope they didn’t announce this way to soon. If a bunch of people bought into Amazon for plex cloud thinking like I did hey they announced this and I could use a month or two to upload before worrying about getting invited and testing. I expect a lot of upset over the cost for amazon drive being even higher than plex’s costs and not having access.
If that’s the case, then those people need to give their heads a shake and learn to read. Plex Cloud was introduced what, 2? 3? weeks ago and CLEARLY identified as an EARLY beta access to FEW people and to expect bugs. How people decided in their heads that this was an almost fully featured product on the verge of being widely available is incomprehensible.
@KarlDag said:
If that’s the case, then those people need to give their heads a shake and learn to read. Plex Cloud was introduced what, 2? 3? weeks ago and CLEARLY identified as an EARLY beta access to FEW people and to expect bugs. How people decided in their heads that this was an almost fully featured product on the verge of being widely available is incomprehensible.
The way it was marketed was very deceptive IMHO. It should have been quietly released on these forums and not sent out as press releases to the masses of Verge, Engaget, etc, There is no way you can say this was announced on the down low and low key. If so then why did every tech site have it within the day? It was hyped plain and simple. They could have kept it under wraps and just said ‘We’re working on something and would like some volunteers’ without anyone being the wiser. I certainly would never have known about it until it was released. I wasnt a person who came here often.
@wild_hair said:
@KarlDag said:
If that’s the case, then those people need to give their heads a shake and learn to read. Plex Cloud was introduced what, 2? 3? weeks ago and CLEARLY identified as an EARLY beta access to FEW people and to expect bugs. How people decided in their heads that this was an almost fully featured product on the verge of being widely available is incomprehensible.
The way it was marketed was very deceptive IMHO. It should have been quietly released on these forums and not sent out as press releases to the masses of Verge, Engaget, etc, There is no way you can say this was announced on the down low and low key. If so then why did every tech site have it within the day? It was hyped plain and simple. They could have kept it under wraps and just said ‘We’re working on something and would like some volunteers’ without anyone being the wiser. I certainly would never have known about it until it was released. I wasnt a person who came here often.
I could be wrong, but I think tech stores covered it to get as many clicks as possible and make money… Don’t plex themselves released a press release outside of their blog… But I’ve been wrong before.
I spent over 500 on hard drives this year, and I built my plex server a few years ago and upgrade it as needed. I wouldn’t have bought into Amazon so quickly but normally when you’re getting emails about a new plex release it’s not a long term wait until release.
Right now I am trying to overcome the upload speeds to a mobile network, if I stream from netflix or amazon everythings fine. If I try plex over 4g it’s not quick enough. I can stream fine from pc over the internet just never a mobile network.
any movement on this within the last month or so? How close is this to actually working and being available?
Like somebody else said the way this was marketed through the likes of engadget, etc was really misleading.
